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91A lovely, mischievous Casanova that will sweep you off your feet.
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88Hallstrom gives us a genial interpretation and a supremely good-humored film.
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80A smart and sophisticated comedy romp.
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80A delightfully silly romp which reinvents the legendary Italian lover's adventures into the realm of broad farce.
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80Among the least-heralded of the Christmas releases, Casanova is one of the few that's wholly enjoyable.
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80In the exhilarating Casanova, giddy shenanigans effectively set off the dangerous, darker impulses of human nature.
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80A handsome chunk of widescreen entertainment that's as nimble as its rakish hero.
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80Lasse Hallstrom (Chocolat) directs a sparking screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher (Stage Beauty) and Kimberly Simi; it starts as a frothy boudoir comedy but evolves into a masquerade by turns sweetly meditative and sharply satirical.
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75Casanova is an entertaining if silly romp, with amusing dialogue, gorgeous production design and painterly cinematography. Venice, where the movie is set, has never been so breathtaking.
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75And if real eroticism is missing - this is a Disney movie, with bosoms heaving more in a gentle parody of heaving than in full desire - the great discovery of this Casanova is Hallström's recovered capacity for play.
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70It's a sweet, silly and not unintelligent romantic comedy: For a period farce, you could do worse.
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70In any case, what is on screen is a delightful respite from awards-season seriousness - a feather film, you might say, that actually tickles.
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67Hallström's latest is fine but unambitious, content with what it is – an arthouse trifle for the masses.
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63The feisty supporting cast is forced to carry the show, and fortunately, they're more than up to it, notably Olin, Platt and Jeremy Irons.
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63As with his other costume farce, "Stage Beauty" (with Billy Crudup and Claire Danes), Hatcher produces more froth than zest.
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60Little by little, though, he (Ledger)and those around him achieve a critical mass -- an extremely light critical mass -- and the plot pops with entertaining complications.
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58Although Casanova is far from a stinker, I can't join in the chorus of praise for what is essentially a coy farce replete with arch performances and even archer dialogue.
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58Unfortunately, the goofiness never quite finds its groove. The romantic chemistry is tepid, the comedy misses as often as it hits, the picaresque plot keeps dogging down and even actors as skilled as Platt, Irons and Lena Olin fail to register strongly in their roles.
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50Ledger's comic flair is a big plus in a film that is fanatically busy and fatally sexless.
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50That the new Casanova lacks such wit is fatal. Heath Ledger is a good actor but Hallstrom's film is busy and unfocused, giving us the view of Casanova's ceaseless activity but not the excitement. It's a sitcom when what is wanted is comic opera.
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50Casanova doesn't seduce so much as lull the audience into a stupor with tedious blather about the battle of the sexes, intermittent but pointless swordplay and clumsy slapstick.
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50A period romp that tries too hard.
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Don't confuse the 18th-century Vene tian setting in Casanova with sophisti cation. The film's one-dimensional characters and lame one-liners make it a sitcom with petticoats.
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50Jeremy Irons slithers on board with a haughty sneer and papal vestments, playing Bishop Pucci.
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50A light film, airy, likable and set in Venice.
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50What happens when movie producers cross "Three's Company" with "Masterpiece Theater?" The result would be similar to what Touchstone Pictures has provided with Casanova, a farcical romantic comedy period piece.
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50Miller gives the film's one genuine, focused, committed performance, and you can see why she might even reform a rake of Casanova's standing.
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50The story, as so often in bad farce, treats them all as idiots, so it's almost impossible be engaged by anything other than the pretty rooms, gondolas and costumes.
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50The movie cries out for the bawdy, rompy air that filled Richard Lester's "Three Musketeers" movies, and what it gets instead is the same dispassionate "professionalism" that has made Hallström a steady fixture in a Hollywood that could do with an infusion of Casanova's own virile lifeblood.
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50At best, it's a light, boisterous little confection, but hasn't Hugh Grant already starred in this film a few times?
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50The movie Casanova, starring Heath Ledger, not only fetters the randy Venetian in political correctness, it condemns him to dwell inside the modern equivalent of a bad Shakespeare play.
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50When the credits were over at last, I sighed, and took away a moviegoer's fantasy of Ledger and Miller starting work again, far away from Venice and ball gowns, on something that might be worth seeing.
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50This Jeffrey Hatcher-Kimberly Simi version, directed by Lasse Hallström, has a resemblance to some of Casanova's memoirs but is chiefly based on the assumption that, in a costume drama, anything goes.
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40Occasionally fun, always pretty, completely a mess, Casanova never quite finds its footing.
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38The movie treats trysting as comedy and yet is stingy with the laughs.
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20Ledger's deadpan baritone pumps wit into his tepid one-liners like collagen into a wilted starlet's kisser, and the clumsy staging might not grate so much if the tone weren't so self-congratulatory.
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JaneD.9This is an awful, stupid movie. That said, I saw it twice in the theater just for the Oliver Platt/Lena Olin subplot. They are insanely adorable.
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DavidZ.7Very enjoyable. Don't expect wonders and watch a likable tale.